Archive for the ‘Public Health’ Category

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Friday, March 14th, 2008

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The best sex lasts 7 to 13 minutes

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

The best sexual intercourse lasts between seven and 13 minutes, according to a new survey by US experts. According to the research, led by Dr Eric Corty, from the Behrend College in Erie, Pennsylvania, three-minute sex is 'adequate'. The study is the first to review what the experts believe is ...

Health Disparities In The U.S. Have Narrowed And Widened

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Heath inequities between rich and poor, as well as between different racial and ethnic groups, shrank in the U.S. from 1966 to 1980, then widened from 1980 to 2002, as measured in rates death in the young and in infants. This was reported in a study recently published in PLoS ...

Spread Of Complex Life May Have Been Sparked By 2 Oxygenation Events In Ancient Oceans

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

The rise of oxygen and the oxidation of deep oceans between 635 and 551 million years ago may have had an impact on the increase and spread of the earliest complex life, including animals, according to a study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online Early ...

Crime-Fighting Tool: Hair Reveals Where Murder Victims Drank Water

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

University of Utah scientists developed a new crime-fighting tool by showing that human hair reveals the general location where a person drank water, helping police track past movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims. "You are what you eat and drink - and that is recorded in your hair," says ...

Shocking New Book: Slaughterhouse

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

On Sunday, February 17, 2008 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued its largest meat recall in United States history, less than three weeks after a slaughterhouse worker secretly made a tape depicting violations of federal animal care regulations by a Westland division of the Hallmark Company. Upon investigation, the ...

Reducing Global Warming By Tracking Your Carbon Footprint

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

An innovation called Carbon Hero may help reduce global warming by making people more aware of their carbon footprint. Regional prize winner in the 2007 European Satellite Navigation Competition, sponsored by ESA's Technology Transfer Programme, the device uses satellite navigation technology to track journeys. Concerned about global warming, many people are ...

A Cleaner Future: Special Coating Greatly Improves Solar Cell Performance

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California's Mojave Desert could power all of the United States' electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and inefficient for wide-scale commercial applications. A team of Northwestern ...

5 US Cities To Host Genetic Town Halls

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The Genetics and Public Policy Center will conduct a series of public town hall meetings to gather feedback from the public on their views related to a proposed large cohort study on the role of genes and environment in health. The town halls are part of a public consultation effort ...